Physics and you!
Fall Meeting
A Party with APS and SOS-AAPT, come join us!
October 14, 2017
Miami University
500 East Spring Street
Oxford, Ohio
For directions, click on the link above.
Host - Dr Jennifer Blue, Miami University
Host: Miami University Physics Department Website
APS Physics
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SOS_AAPT Fall Meeting 2017 - agenda
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Pendulum Commons
Registration
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - 224 Kreger Hall
Fred Thomas - Math Machine - Physics & Earthquakes
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Pendulum Commons
Registration
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - 224 Kreger Hall
Fred Thomas - Math Machine - Physics & Earthquakes
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Lenore Horner - 7 Hills School - Treating Interference Effects Coherently
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Hunter Daymon - Eastern Michigan - Testing Drag Models with a Pendulum Oscillator -
A cool video of a pendulum and the air flow
A cool video of a pendulum and the air flow
Herbert Jaeger - Miami University - Audacity for Teaching the Physics of Music
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Jennifer Blue - Miami University - Student Strategies for Improving Course Grades: What Do They Do? https://perusall.com
Beverley A.P. Taylor -Miami University - Teaching with Toys: Why? and How? (TOYS KREGER 324)
Julius Sumnter Miller Mechanical Toys
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
Beverley A.P. Taylor -Miami University - Teaching with Toys: Why? and How? (TOYS KREGER 324)
Julius Sumnter Miller Mechanical Toys
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Kreger Hall 319
G1 Plenary Talk: Tom Foster, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; "Explicit Content and Spoilers: What we know about problem solving problems"
Abstract: Take a moment and recognize that you are among a very elite population of people: You are an expert at solving physics problems. In that same moment ask yourself have you ever grappled with a problem that made you rethink how you thought about physics? If so, you have an innate talent for physics. However, the students in introductory physics classes are not experts in physics, or physics problem-solving, or the connection between them. There exists a huge gap between your problem-solving skills and those of your students. Fortunately physics education researchers, cognitive scientists, science educators, and a host of other scientists have been studying student learning and we know how people learn. We will take a few moments to discuss what is known about teaching students to become more competent problem-solvers.
G1 Plenary Talk: Tom Foster, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; "Explicit Content and Spoilers: What we know about problem solving problems"
Abstract: Take a moment and recognize that you are among a very elite population of people: You are an expert at solving physics problems. In that same moment ask yourself have you ever grappled with a problem that made you rethink how you thought about physics? If so, you have an innate talent for physics. However, the students in introductory physics classes are not experts in physics, or physics problem-solving, or the connection between them. There exists a huge gap between your problem-solving skills and those of your students. Fortunately physics education researchers, cognitive scientists, science educators, and a host of other scientists have been studying student learning and we know how people learn. We will take a few moments to discuss what is known about teaching students to become more competent problem-solvers.
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Kreger Hall 319
H1 Plenary Talk: Benjamin Schumacher, Inventor of the Qubit!, Kenyon College; "Quantum flows of probability and heat"
Abstract: Textbook quantum mechanics uses a "probability current" to establish the "conservation of probability" for an evolving spatial wave function. This idea can be adapted to simple quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, including open systems that exchange energy and information with their surroundings. Through a series of undergraduate projects at Kenyon over the last few years, we have used probability currents to study heat and work flows in quantum thermodynamic systems, including the tiniest possible heat engines.
H1 Plenary Talk: Benjamin Schumacher, Inventor of the Qubit!, Kenyon College; "Quantum flows of probability and heat"
Abstract: Textbook quantum mechanics uses a "probability current" to establish the "conservation of probability" for an evolving spatial wave function. This idea can be adapted to simple quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, including open systems that exchange energy and information with their surroundings. Through a series of undergraduate projects at Kenyon over the last few years, we have used probability currents to study heat and work flows in quantum thermodynamic systems, including the tiniest possible heat engines.
12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Kreger Hall 319
OS/APS Closing Remarks, Adjournment
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - 3rd Floor Commons
Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Kreger Hall 319
SOS-AAPT business meeting - elections
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Kreger Hall 319
Panel Discussion: Doug Forrest @PickPhysics (Pickerington High School North), Kevin McChesney @TigerPhysics TigerPhysics.org (password: tigers) (Pickerington High School Central), Dr. Kathy Harper, The Ohio State University, "Implementing AP Physics 1"
2:00 p.m. - SOS-AAPT Board Meeting
OS/APS Closing Remarks, Adjournment
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - 3rd Floor Commons
Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Kreger Hall 319
SOS-AAPT business meeting - elections
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Kreger Hall 319
Panel Discussion: Doug Forrest @PickPhysics (Pickerington High School North), Kevin McChesney @TigerPhysics TigerPhysics.org (password: tigers) (Pickerington High School Central), Dr. Kathy Harper, The Ohio State University, "Implementing AP Physics 1"
2:00 p.m. - SOS-AAPT Board Meeting
To register for the Fall Joint APS/SOS-AAPT Meeting go to the following link. miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/physics/events/index.html